Ship Full of Bombs

Back after a mysterious 3-month break, Jason challenges himself to create an hour and a half of light entertainment without mentioning Brexit or sex with cows. Join him for the local show with global pretensions, as he mispronounces the names of artists from around the world in a desperate effort to sound cosmopolitan. Featuring vocal polyphony from Poland and France, harsh noise from Bury St. Edmunds, punked-up Tarab, psychedelic pop and midi-enhanced xylophone music from Uganda. Plus three razor-sharp cuts from featured label Backwoodz Studioz.

1. Lankum – Go Dig My Grave
2. BIG|BRAVE – Carvers, Farriers and Knaves
3. Hack-Poets Guild – The Troubles of The World or Nothing Cheap But Poor Mens Labour
4. Bastarda & Sutari – Granica / Pasienio / Hranicia
5. Pissabed Prophet – Telling the Bees
6. Groff – Peaches
7. billy woods and Kenny Segal – Babylon by Bus (featuring ShrapKnel)
8. Aya Metwalli and Calamita - El Khala3 Wel Dala3
9. En Attendant Ana – Wonder
10. Curly Castro – Dah Switchness
11. Scrambled Limbs – Something Stiff
12. This Heel – Ant Crusher (Sticky Hands Version)
13. Emma Sampson – Rain
14. Cocanha – Que Son A​ü​ros
15. SKECH185 and Jeff Markey – Badly Drawn Hero
16. Nakibembe Embaire Group – 160 (with Gabber Modus Operandi and Wahono)
17. Italian Books – Beyond Capacity
18. Weapon Eyes – Tonechurn 1 (Live at Colchester Arts Centre)
19. Trigger Cut – Mute Driver
20. Earth Mother Fucker – Sister European Son (Live at the Smokehouse)

Jason maxes out on the E numbers as he treats listeners to another Needle Time special, with the word 'special' very much in air quotes, as it involves little more than playing a bunch of records from the E section of his record collection and telling people what they are. Two hours of tunes and no jokes about dropping an E. And, with tracks ranging from the electro-acoustic abstraction of Eugeniusz Rudnik to the proto-punk nihilism of electric eels, rave casualties hoping for banging choons will be disappointed. 

1. Evangelista – The Slayer
2. L’Épée – Une Lune Étrange
3. elephant – Kick
4. Eric B & Rakim – Paid in Full
5. Elder Curry and Congregation – Memphis Flu
6. The Ex – Huriyet
7. Etran Finatawa – Kel Tamasheck
8. Elvis Costello and The Attractions – Beyond Belief
9. Elliott Smith – Needle in the Hay
10. Elucid – Smile Lines
11. Edward W. Clayborn – Your Enemy Cannot Harm You (But Watch Your Close Friend)
12. electric eels – Agitated
13. Earth Mother Fucker – I Fuck Therefore I Am
14. The Electric Prunes – I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)
15. 8-Eyed Spy – Lazy in Love
16. The Embarrassment – (I’m a) Don Juan
17. Echo & The Bunnymen – Ocean Rain
18. Eels – Flower
19. Einstürzende Neubauten – Yü-Gung
20. East Man & Ny Ny – Who Am I?
21. Eugeniusz Rudnik – Psalmus
22. The Easy Star All-Stars – Paranoid Android (featuring Kirsty Rock)
23. Extreme Noise Terror – Raping the Earth
24. Eliza Carthy – Worcester City
25. Edith, Raymond and Geneva Pinder – I Bid You Goodnight
26. Ergo Phizmiz – Bedsheet Smell

It’s the Antigen Internet Radio Seaside Special! And that can only mean one thing – an hour and a half of mermaids, masturbation and motorised lawnmowers. Join Jason as he helps the people of Southend-on-Sea City celebrate Brexit’s third birthday with salty tales of saucy pinnipeds and raunchy ride-on lawnmower action. Puzzle over whether a pint of Brexit is half-full or half empty, and find out how Jacob Rees-Mogg made leaving the EU suck more than ever. Tune in now to discover the most effective way to deter mermaids from illegally entering the UK to seduce our menfolk with their abnormally developed breasts. And find out whether Jason could rise to the Suella Braverman Twitter challenge.

Track listing:

1. MacGillivray – Murdered Mermaid Song
2. Dead Rat Orchestra – Joy/Sorrow (Sula Sgeir)
3. Mark Kozelek & Jimmy Lavalle – Here Come More Perils from the Sea
4. Sealionwoman – Sands
5. The Swain family, Reverend W.G. McPhee and George Mackenzie – Numberless as the Sands on the Seashore
6. Mick Squalor – Camber Sands
7. Zoogz Rift – Island of Living Puke
8. Dead Kennedys – Moon Over Marin
9. Nick Cave featuring the Bad Seeds – Cabin Fever!
10. Morphine – Sharks
11. Vashti Bunyan – Window over the Bay
12. Rev Simpkins – Big Sea
13. The Band of Holy Joy – Prams, Piers and Bitter Tears

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Was banjo playing banned by Moses in Deuteronomy? What would the Stooges sound like if they were fronted by 70s game show host Larry Grayson? And what’s the most awkward and unconvincing way an English person can pronounce the popular South African dance genre, gqom? Join Jason for the answers as he finds himself driven by a primal male urge to compile and share an end-of-year list of his favourite music of 2022. 

1. Benefits – Flag
2. Rinuwat – Tarang Emas
3. MacGillivray – In Angel’s Weed
4. Borguefül – Euratza Blanc
5. De la Crau – Chaman
6. Lalalar – Abla Deme Lazim Olur
7. Asian Dub Foundation - Naxalite
8. Rev Simpkins – A Ballad of John Ball
9. Cinder Well and Jim Ghedi – I Am a Youth That’s Inclined To Ramble
10. Phil Tyler & Sarah Hill – Suffolk Miracle
11. Hack-Poets Guild – Daring Highwayman
12. The Simpkins Family – Down in the Valley to Pray (Live at St. Peter-on-the-Wall)
13. Oxbow and Peter Brötzmann – The Finished Line
14. billy woods – Sauvage
15. Jason Griff – Seen Team (feat. Ace Cannons, Defcee & Premrock)
16. Chillin Villain Empire – Thugs and Clips
17. Lady Aicha & Pisco Crane’s Original Fulu Miziki of Kinshasa – Tikanga
18. Afrorack – Osc
19. Chrisman – Lupupu
20. Tony Gallardo – Plata O Plomo
21. Avalanche Kaito - Dabalomuni
22. Earth Mother Fucker – I Fuck Therefore I Am (Live at the Smokehouse)
23. Laddio Bolocko – Goat Lips
24. Nina Nastasia – This is Love
25. Coil – Batwings (A Limnal Hymn)

1. Dead Can Dance – Rakim (Live)
2. Dr. John – I Walk on Gilded Splinters
3. Doc Watson – Down in the Valley to Pray
4. Dirty Three – Alice Wading (Live at Meredith)
5. Dead Kennedys – Nazi Punks Fuck Off
6. DAF – Nacht Arbeit
7. Danny Brown – Dirty Laundry
8. Dizzee Rascal – I Luv U
9. The Divine Comedy – Your Daddy’s Car
10. The Dukes of Stratosphear – You’re My Drug
11. Daniel Johnston – True Love Will Find You in the End
12. David Bowie – Rock and Roll Suicide
13. Dorian Wood – Ken
14. The Delgados – And So the Talking Stopped
15. Danielle Dax – Hammerheads
16. Delia Derbyshire – Blue Veils and Golden Sands
17. Depeche Mode – Clean
18. Death Grips – No Love
19. Diamanda Galás – This is the Law of the Plague
20. Dolly Parton – Little Sparrow
21. Dead Rat Orchestra – The Geshin and the Guga
22. Dave Van Ronk – The Cruel Ship’s Captain
23. Dingus Khan – Plank
24. DJ Shadow (feat. Run The Jewels) – Nobody Speak
25. Dean Martin – Little Ole Wine Drinker Me
26. Dazzling Killmen – Windshear
27. The Doug Anthony All-Stars – Throw Your Arms Around Me (Live)

Join Jason for an hour of quiet reflection and sombre music from the BBC’s Mood 1 playlist (to be deployed in the event of the death of a Category One royal), as he ponders the public response to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. He profiles the ‘pampered prince’, who gave hope to academic underachievers everywhere, by becoming the new man-queen of the UK. He investigates the transferable skills his sacked servants will bring to the modern workplace. And, as the world embraces change, with black hobbits, mermaids with melanin and a queen with a penis – we wonder why this is so difficult for some 50-year-old fantasists to swallow.

This show contains opinions that, if voiced in public, may result in arrest. Do not repeat anything you hear.

1. The Simpkins Family – Down in the Valley to Pray (Live at St. Peter-on-the-Wall)
2. These Are End Times – Now I Realise How Helpless We Are (Live at Latitude Festival)
3. Sealionwoman – Siren
4. Rinuwat – Tarang Emas
5. Phil Tyler & Sarah Hill – The Heathery Hills of Yarrow
6. There Are No Birds Here / Rev Simpkins - In the Marsh a Desert (Tanbh sidewalk rework mix)
7. Fuzzy Lights – Safe Place
8. PJ Harvey – White Chalk
9. The King's Military Band - God Save The King (1914) 
10. The Simpkins Family – Bid You Goodnight (Live at St. Peter-on-the-Wall)

Remember when black lives mattered to the music industry? Back in June 2020? Jason gets nostalgic for a time when performative displays of solidarity were key to deepening customer affinity with the antigen brand.

Yes, it's a re-run of Episode 6 of the Antigen Internet Radio show – the infamous Black Squares & White Silence episode. The one that answered the question: What's the easiest, least labour-intensive way to support Black Lives Matter?

And we remember when the people of the UK were shocked to discover hypocrisy and rule-breaking at Number 10! Who would have thought it? We hear the tales of two men with poor eyesight, trying to protect their families from the perils of the pandemic.

Re-live the fun of the first lockdown with this episode from antigen archives, never before broadcast on Southend local radio.      

1. The Watts Prophets – Listen
2. Run The Jewels – Ju$t
3. The Last Poets – When the Revolution Comes
4. Nina Simone – Mississippi Goddam
5. Matana Roberts – Pov Piti
6. JPEGMAFIA – Once They Build a Starbucks It's Ova
7. JPEGMAFIA – I'll Never Forgive Hipsters for What They Did to Brooklyn
8. Receiver – Horse Party
9. Dorian Wood – Hymn to Freedom
10. Bob Vylan – We Live Here
11. NWA – Fuck the Police
12. Public Enemy – By the Time I Get to Arizona
13. The Watts Prophets – Response to a Borgeois N*gg*r

Hear how one man’s love of testicles almost brought down a government. And, after Borexit, what next? As the PM goes AWOL, eleven potential successors face trial by public humiliation. Who can distance themselves furthest from everything they’ve endorsed for the last 12 years? And who will claim the ultimate prize – a country they’ve helped forge into the foodbank capital of Europe? It's up to 160,000 swivel-eyed lunatics to decide. Join Jason as he seeks the essence of pure Conservatism that fuels this bin fire of insanity.

And we celebrate the music of Swanfest, the greatest festival ever held in an Ipswich pub.

Warning: this episode contains language.

1. Ichi – Go Gagambo (Live at Swanfest)
2. Rye Shabby – Trench Coat
3. Lebrique – Pale Light
4. Polly Preacher – Jennifer Gentle (Fee Fi NO)
5. Cathedrals & Cars – A Piece of Me Died in Europe
6. Fishclaw – Boreal Grid
7. Rad Pitt – Old Rope
8. Franko Fraize – Oi Oi!
9. Sef – Canto de Hilar (Live at Swanfest)
10. Gaffa Tape Sandy – L’Appel du Vide
11. Dingus Khan – My Love Lasts Forever Like a Plastic Flower
12. John Callaghan – It’s the End, But...

Jason takes a deep dive into the Westminster cesspit to fish for cheap laughs in a quagmire of ministerial depravity. He lures listeners to the lower house, where nay means aye, and no body part is safe from the suffix -gate. And he invites you to bring your own boos, as he relives the panto highlights of the platty joobs. Join him for one and a half hours of topical tunes and non-consensual satire. No cows were harmed in the making of this episode.

Warning: this episode contains descriptions of conduct in public office that most people should find upsetting.

1. Afrorack – Osc
2. Gazelle Twin – Hobby Horse
3. billy woods – The Man Who Would Be King
4. Under the Sun – Floating
5. Os Mutantes – Panis et Circenses
6. Jack Rundell – Party Pooper
7. Lonnie Holley – I Woke Up in a Fucked-Up America
8. Adam and the Ants – Deutscher Girls
9. Rev Simpkins – Big Sea
10. Laddio Bolocko – Goat Lips
11. Crass – Sheep Farming in the Falklands
12. Weapon Eyes – Tonechurn 1
13. Nina Nastasia – This is Love

Strap yourselves in for two hours of family-friendly fun, as Jason delivers tunes from the C-section. He shares handy hints on how to protect your doomsday cult from the existential threat of Bananarama. Plus pop trivia! Find out how many convicted murderers it takes to make a Beach Boys album, and which band's repertoire was dictated to them by a 19th century singing cow. 

1. Church Universal and Triumphant, Inc. featuring Elizabeth Clare Prophet – Invocation for Judgement Against and Destruction of Rock Music / Decree 12.10 (excerpt)
2. Clock DVA – 4 Hours
3. Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld – The Rest of Us
4. Captain Beefheart with Frank Zappa – Orange Claw Hammer (Radio session)
5. The Carl Stalling Project – Satan’s Waitin’ (Excerpt)
6. Cardiacs – Dog-Like Sparky
7. Caleb – Baby, Your Phrasing is Bad
8. Charles Manson – Cease to Exist
9. Chrome – TV as Eyes
10. Cypress Hill – (Rap) Superstar
11. Cat Power – Cross Bones Style
12. The Cure – 10.15 Saturday Night
13. Cromagnon - Caledonia
14. Comus – Diana
15. Current Ninety Three – The Magical Bird in the Magical Wood
16. Cocteau Twins – Ivo
17. Coil – Tainted Love
18. Caroliner Rainbow Stewed Angel Skins – Locked grooves 1-4* / Corn Red Moon
19. Clarence Ashley – Coo Coo Bird
20. Cocanha - Janeta
21. The Cult – Ressurection Joe
22. The Chameleons – In Shreds
23. Cop Shoot Cop – Down Come the Mickey
24. Cabaret Voltaire – Messages Received

* According to the sleeve notes, "The 1st sound you will hear is an explosion of the campfire coming alive with 1800's train and prairie lightning. 2nd has the sound of the whistle you hear for breakdown animal like smile after kissing shit in meantown. 3rd has the sound of the crumble horse and the unicorn man wearing the knife in his brow and his brag yell. 4th is the pipe and organ that made the Levitt kids sane when the snow began to melt."